{"id":2325,"date":"2021-02-04T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:15:04","slug":"history-africana-studies-minors-part-of-award-winning-utc-tennessee-intercollegiate-state-legislature-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2021\/02\/04\/history-africana-studies-minors-part-of-award-winning-utc-tennessee-intercollegiate-state-legislature-team\/","title":{"rendered":"History &amp; Africana Studies Minors Part of Award-Winning UTC Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">History &amp; Africana Studies Minors Part of Award-Winning UTC Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature Team<\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The UTC Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) team that competed in November 2020 was the most successful team in UTC&#8217;s history of engagement with the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature is a forum for students to exchange ideas, express their opinions and learn how government works. TISL&#8217;s Senate and House of Representatives, which first convened in 1966, meet in the legislative chambers of the State Capitol each November. The judicial branch of TISL is the Tennessee Intercollegiate Supreme Court, which presides over the Appellate Moot Court Collegiate Challenge (AMC3) at the same time the TISL legislature is meeting. AMC3 is a moot court competition for non-law students. Colleges form teams of two to five members to prepare a brief and argue for the petitioner and respondent before the Court. Producers, editors and reporters of TISL Media communicate in a variety of ways about events at TISL. Current initiatives include videos, a printed newsletter at the General Assembly, blogging, and Twitter. Student officers, selected by their peers, play a primary role in running TISL programs throughout the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_6931248983991937411xmsonormal\">\n<p class=\"m_6931248983991937411xmsonormal\"><span class=\"m_6931248983991937411color19\" style=\"color: #000000\">Dr. Chris Acuff, Assistant Professor, PSPS is the advisor of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>TISL awards for UTC delegation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><em>Best delegation<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Two Carlisle Awards (Amanda Forbes, delegate president, Communications major\/PSPS minor; and Miles Mosby, PSPS major\/Psychology minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Best Bill (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Evelina Kertay<\/strong><\/span>, PSPS major\/<strong>Africana Studies minor<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Best Researched Bill (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Evelina Kertay<\/strong><\/span>, PSPS major\/<strong>Africana Studies minor<\/strong> and <span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Dae Alexander<\/strong><\/span>, PSPS major\/<strong>Africana Studies minor<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Best Lawyer (<span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Devin Joiner<\/strong><\/span>, PSPS major\/<strong>history minor<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><strong>Elected to state-wide office for 2021<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Supreme Court Justice (Maya Keith, PSPS major\/Criminal Justice minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lobbying Director (Julia Stranahan, English major\/PSPS minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Attorney General (Rohan Thompson, PSPS major\/French\/Economics minors)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Secretary of State (Jannat Saeed, Computer Science)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em><strong>Remaining members of our award-winning 2020 delegation:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Gabrielle Eilf\u00a0(TISL delegate vice-President, 2020 Supreme Court Justice, PSPS major\/Psychology minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kameilia Landry\u00a0(Mock Trial team, PSPS major\/Business Administration minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mateo Jose-Jimenez\u00a0(House of Representatives, PSPS major\/Sociology minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lilah Afflerbaugh\u00a0(House of Representatives, PSPS major\/Psychology minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Lindsay Phares\u00a0(Media, Marketing major)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Nicki Messer<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0(TISL Secretary, Senate, PSPS major\/<strong>History minor<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jessica Pruitt\u00a0(Co-Head of Lobbying, PSPS major\/Criminal Justice minor)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Emily Linkous\u00a0(Co-Head of Lobbying, Media Director, PSPS major\/Criminal Justice minor)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UTC Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) team that competed in November 2020 was the most successful team in UTC&#8217;s history of engagement with the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/history\/2021\/02\/04\/history-africana-studies-minors-part-of-award-winning-utc-tennessee-intercollegiate-state-legislature-team\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":800,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,83250],"tags":[35588],"class_list":{"0":"post-2325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africana-studies","8":"category-student-news","9":"tag-student-news","10":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>History &amp; 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